353 Quotes About Literary-fiction

A Francoforte… a suo futuro vantaggio, o per una semplice intuizione, Alice ha iniziato a prendere nota del fenomeno su un taccuino blu, con tanto di nomi e cognomi, appuntandosi anche tutta una serie di espressioni tipiche e ben poco obiettive riguardanti la letteratura (“literary fiction”, ad esempio, qui significa che un libro è noiso).

…Here we come close to one of the definitions of literary fiction. Even the best kind of popular novel just comes straight at you; you have no conversation with a popular novel. Whereas you do have a conversation (you have an intense argument) with [literary fiction].

I guess if you get too close, the twinkling stops; they don’t look like stars anymore.

Sometimes, when we cannot attain the freedom we are fighting for, we free ourselves b carving a new path to freedom.

Were the stars against him? A woman's fingers are quicker in the sky and shine more brightly.

You know what people are doing on the other side of the world, what’s happening on another planet, but not what’s going on inside the person next to you.

We put our flags in soil when we arrive, as if it now belongs to us and we know where we are.

The world is indeed a cold, hard stone.

Then there was silence, the air like ice. Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens rolled up like sleepy bears. The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.